A kind of little cars may take the place of today’s big ones many years later. If everyone drives such cars in the future, there will be less pollution in the air. There will also be more space for parking in cities, and the streets will be less crowded.

The little cars of the future will cost less. Driving will be safer, too, since these little cars can go only 65 kilometers an hour. The cars of the future will be fine for going around a city, but they will not be useful for a long way. Little cars will go 450 kilometers before they need to stop for more gasoline (汽油). If big cars are still used with the small ones, two kinds of roads will be needed in the future. Some roads will be needed for the big, faster cars and other roads will be needed for the small, slower ones.

Working from home is more and more popular as a means of escaping the nine-to-five office life. Why do you work under the eye of your boss when you can work in front of the TV in your slippers? Armed with all the necessary things—telephone, computer, e-mail and fax, many workers believe they can work as effectively as their colleagues in the office. Being able to work wherever you like: from a busy city to a village, and not having to stand the daily things, make working from home an attractive choice. If you wish, you can even work on a river boat.

So what will become of the office tomorrow? It is possible that many could go into computer space creating a new wave of virtual (虚拟的) offices. To minimize office in inner-city areas, companies will have a work force made up of a network of home, workers linked by an advanced communication and information system. A central processing computer would be controlled by the manager who sends out work schedules and oversees (监视) the activity of each employee.

A video screen would be created, as the need for e-mail or telephone becomes greater. Seeing the mood and expression of work colleagues, mangers would have the ability to view several employees at once on their screen. Employers would be encouraged to feed any information that may be useful to fellow workers into the computer to make the company work more effectively. As the company’s lifeblood, the computer would contain a record of all conversations and communication for future reference and hold secret information such as accounts in password (口令) protected areas.

I often think about my future and talk about it with my friends. I want to know what it would be like.

Now I am a middle school student. It is important for me to listen to the teacher carefully in class. When I finish middle school, I will take the entrance exam to high school. I'd like to study law. It is something that interests me and it would be helpful for my work because I want to be a lawyer in the future.

I don’t know what my family will be like in the future. I would like to have a big house in New York. I hope that one day I will get married and have four children—two boys and two girls. When I have time, I will play and travel with them by car.